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by pknomad 4y ago
err... because Asians typically have to score higher/better on GPAs, exams, and such to get in than other ethnic groups. Yes, Asians are over-represented in US universities if comparing to the population of the US but are doing so desp
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by pknomad 4y ago
Same. I came to this realization during the pandemic. I loved the tech and startup culture but that only holds your interest for so long. I would love to live somewhere cheaper and has more vibrant small city life.
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by pknomad 4y ago
This is pretty common for most elite institutions in the United States. These institutions have the financial strength (look at the US universities endowments and it's pretty eye-watering) and have the financial incentives to push prog
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by pknomad 4y ago
The family/marriage FOMO bug is definitely a thing for sure. I think that's one venue I'll try to explore a bit more. How do you keep such positive outlook at the next decade?
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by pknomad 4y ago
I wore my job like an armor and it was super disorienting to find something... that wasn't attached to my job. School, travel (in the form of conferences), etc were all for career. You're right about career prospects. I'm hop
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by pknomad 4y ago
It's super confusing and does feel like a grind. I don't think I ever had to self-evaluate myself to this degree. I'll give your suggestion a try. Appreciate the kind words.
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Find Meaning at Work
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by pknomad 4y ago
> I would argue that people have a very intrinsic need for the "doing" mode (setting goals, spending effort achieving them, slowly observing the progress). If we don't get enough of that, we start inventing goals. If we do
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by pknomad 4y ago
I'm pretty sure there are accounting interest groups that don't want easy way to file taxes. It still boggles my mind that somehow I have to calculate how much I owe to the IRS when they can calculate it themselves and just give m
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by pknomad 4y ago
I think there's a precedence for it too. I believe George Dantzig's doctoral advisor offered to accept the solutions to a homework set as a thesis since it solved major open statistical problems.
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by pknomad 4y ago
Probably because Better.com went through poorly-executed layoffs.
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by pknomad 5y ago
Probably some? I used to work in client platform engineering. Most teams recognized that this was going to happen back when Apple acquired Fleetsmith in 2020. It will most likely compete with non-enterprise MDM space (think Jamf Now) at fir
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by pknomad 5y ago
I did a similar thing. I burned out hard at Peloton and left back in November to join a hybrid private/state/federal entity. I get paid 30K less but I do make up for it with MUCH better work life balance. I'd say look inside
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by pknomad 5y ago
I spent some time as CPE so I guess the naming convention always made sense? You went from lesser cats to greater cats and now to different sites in CA. Each naming always comes with a version number to fall back on...
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by pknomad 5y ago
I have my gripes about Peloton as a former employee (left back in November 2021), but this is just a hit piece. They're taking whatever facts that conveniently fits their narrative.
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by pknomad 5y ago
Well... it does come out to smidge over 3lb/week weight loss. Most healthy weight loss puts a cap at 2lb/week so he's not wrong. I understand your sentiment though.
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by pknomad 5y ago
I'm 10 years removed from life science research at this point... but aren't these vitamin studies a dime a dozen at this point? I don't think I see a comparison of outcomes between groups that were vitamin D deficient/in
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by pknomad 5y ago
If you signed up for G-Suite yes. If you were using a non @gmail.com domain then you were most likely on free G-Suite tier.
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by pknomad 5y ago
Not necessarily disagreeing with you but homelessness issue won't be solved by simply moving people into rust belt. Even if people were to be moved... how would we fix the issue that caused them to become homeless (and helpless)? Part
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by pknomad 5y ago
Oh man. I wish I had listened more carefully to this advice before the pandemic. I was not mentally in a good place couple months ago after being really burnt out working for my former employer (good team and good manager but the senior lea
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by pknomad 5y ago
It's just a simplified model. It's often used for teaching the context of chemistry (1900s?) and is used as a stepping stone for teaching orbitals and energy states so I think it's a useful tool for pedagogy at the very least
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by pknomad 5y ago
> I learned the wrong physics like the atom model for years and aren't using any of that knowledge. To be fair - this is fairly common for most subjects and models are exactly that: models. I think of them as precise-enough framewor
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by pknomad 5y ago
ehh.. I worked in platform/systems team for companies that were step below FANG and we would routinely use brew (with ansible and shell scripts) to setup engineering and office laptops. I can't recall other package managers that h
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by pknomad 5y ago
I’m self taught. I also don’t recommend this route for career since you miss out on opportunities or have to make up for credentialing through different ways. Self teaching is viable for people who usually have talent, grit or often both.
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by pknomad 5y ago
Speaking as someone who was born overseas in Asia, grew up in Northeast and went to a university in the deep south (Atlanta), this part does not surprise me: > “What we see here is that one person’s obesity can influence numerous others
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by pknomad 5y ago
I would count myself part of this statistic and I imagine there are quite of few folks here that would agree with me. I left for SF to help further advance my career and I am incredibly thankful for the city and its people for getting me fr
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by pknomad 5y ago
I think COVID lockdown made keeping social media usage to a minimum really difficult. I noticed that I started to watch chatting streams on Twitch as a crutch for not being able to socialize outside. Socializing over a video call with your
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by pknomad 5y ago
Sorry that you had to experience something like this. While it never happened to me, but apparently one of my colleague's manager got a direct phone call from his manager because "he was not responding to slack messages fast enoug
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by pknomad 5y ago
You're trading for structured environment at the cost of complexity for sure, but I think there's something to be said about the degree of complexity. Ansible for example only requires python + some handful library + ssh connectio
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by pknomad 5y ago
I agree with the point on "Delete your icebox" but I'd argue that this phenomenon exists in other tracking tools. It takes conscious effort to not use icebox/backlog as a wishlist bucket that you want to work on but neve

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